United Nations
A/RES/56/296
General Assembly
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda item 136
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/56/715/Add.1)]
56/296. Financing of the United Nations Transitional
Administration in East Timor and the United Nations
Mission of Support in East Timor
The General Assembly,
Having considered the reports of the Secretary-General on the financing of the
United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor and the United Nations
Mission of Support in East Timor, 1 the related note by the Secretary-General 2 and
the related reports of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary
Questions, 3
Recalling Security Council resolution 1272 (1999) of 25 October 1999
regarding the establishment of the United Nations Transitional Administration in
East Timor and the subsequent resolutions by which the Council extended the
mandate of the Transitional Administration, the latest of which was resolution
1392 (2002) of 31 January 2002,
Recalling also its resolution 54/246 A of 23 December 1999 on the financing
of the Transitional Administration and its subsequent resolutions thereon, the latest
of which was resolution 56/249 of 24 December 2001,
Recalling further Security Council resolution 1410 (2002) of 17 May 2002, by
which the Council established the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor
as of 20 May 2002 for an initial period of twelve months,
Recognizing that the costs of the Mission are expenses of the Organization to
be borne by Member States in accordance with Article 17, paragraph 2, of the
Charter of the United Nations,
Recognizing also that, in order to meet the expenditures caused by the
Mission, a different procedure is required from that applied to meet expenditures of
the regular budget of the United Nations,
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1
A/56/890, A/56/922 and A/56/932 and Corr.1.
A/56/947.
3
A/56/887 and A/56/945. See also Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-sixth Session, Fifth
Committee, 58th meeting (A/C.5/56/SR.58), and corrigendum.
2
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